CRISSY PASCUAL / Union-Tribune
Joey Fishell's family decided that the summer before he entered eighth grade was the right time for him to have weight-loss surgery. |
U-T SPECIAL REPORT | THE BATTLE OVER CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Weighing the risks
More obese adolescents are choosing to have weight-loss surgery, but doctors disagree on when such procedures are appropriate – and safe
By Keith Darcé
STAFF WRITER
Driven by diet fatigue, bullying and anxious parents, hundreds of obese children in the United States are going under the knife each year in a last-ditch attempt to shed excess pounds. Weight-loss surgeries that were considered experimental for adults only eight years ago are gaining popularity among overweight adolescents, some as young as 11.
WALL STREET IN CRISIS
Congress examining Bush plan for bailout
$700 billion in bad assets could be bought by U.S.
By David M. Herszenhorn
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration yesterday formally proposed to Congress what could become the largest financial bailout in U.S. history, requesting virtually unfettered authority for the Treasury to buy up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets from financial institutions based in the United States.
Americans' addiction to borrowing root of crisis
By Dean Calbreath
STAFF WRITER
As Congress considers a plan for the government to take over hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debt from Wall Street, many economists say it is only treating the symptoms, rather than the cause, of the nation's economic problems. The real disease is the American addiction to borrowing.
Equal-rights gains have local roots
By Onell R. Soto
STAFF WRITER
It was 8 acres in Chula Vista. A farm. A gift from a father to his young son. When the state tried to take the land away during World War II, the Japanese father and his American son fought back.
